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3	34		BILL NO. 1397 By: Lepak and West (Tammy) of
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15	45		An Act relating to schools; mandating curriculum
16	46		include a unit on the civil rights movement;
17	47		providing description of curriculum; directing the
18	48		State Superintendent of Public Instruction to prepare
19	49		and make available materials; providing for
20	50		codification; and provid ing an effective date .
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25		-	~~SUBJECT: Civil rights movement~~
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27	57		BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
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29	58		SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
30	59		in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 11-103.6p of Title 70, unless
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33	61		A. The State Department of Educati on shall develop and make
34	62		available to every public elementary school and high school in the
35	63		State of Oklahoma, a curriculum that may be taught as a stand-alone
36	64		unit of instruction, or may be integrated into one or mo re existing
37	65		courses of study, studying the events of the civil rights movement
38	66		from 1954 to 1968, the natural law and natural rights principles
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39	94		that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., drew from tha t informed
40	95		his leadership of the civil rights movement, and the tactics an d
41	96		strategies of nonviolent resistance that he championed in response
42	97		to the Jim Crow laws of that era. This period in American history
43	98		is known as the civil rights era because during this period reform-
44	99		minded Americans organ ized to press for a rejection o f the doctrine
45	100		of "separate but equal" and to repeal the Jim Crow-era laws in parts
46		-	of the United States that embodied that doctrine. One of the ~~ENR. H. B. NO. 1397 Page 2~~
	101	+	of the United States that embodied that doctrine. One of the
47	102		universal lessons of the civil rights era is that hatred on the
48	103		basis of immutable characteristics, including not just race or
49	104		ethnicity, but also characteristics such as nationality, religious
50	105		belief, disability, or sex , can overtake any nation or society,
51	106		leading to profound injustice. To reinforce that lesson, such
52	107		curriculum shall include an additional unit of instruction studying
53	108		other acts of discriminatory injustice, such as genocide, committed
54	109		elsewhere around the globe . The study of this material is a
55	110		reaffirmation of the commitment of the people of this state to
56	111		reject bigotry, to champion equal protection under the law as a
57	112		foundational principle of our Republic, and to act in opposition to
58	113		injustice wherever it may occur.
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61	115		and provide exemplar units or sample lesson plans designed to help
62	116		teachers provide instruc tion on the subject matter outlined in this
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65	145		SECTION 2. This act shall become eff ective November 1, 2023.
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67		-	Passed the House of Representatives the 22nd day of March, 2023.
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86		-	OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
87		-	Received by the Office of the Governor this ____________________
88		-	day of ___________________, 20_______, at _______ o'clock _______ M.
89		-	By: _________________________________
90		-	Approved by the Governor of the State of Oklahoma this _____ ____
91		-	day of ___________________, 20_______, at _______ o'clock _______ M.
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95		-	Governor of the State of Oklahoma
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97		-	OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF S TATE
98		-	Received by the Office of the Secretary of State this __________
99		-	day of ___________________, 20_______, at _______ o'clock _______ M.
100		-	By: _________________________________
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